Bra Holed Why Do We Call Pants A "pair Of Pants" ,but We Don't Call A Shirt A "pair Of Shirts" Or A Bra A "pair Of Bras
Why do we call pants a "pair of pants" ,but we don't call a shirt a "pair of shirts" or a bra a "pair of bras - bra holed
Remember, the pants have two legs, but T-shirts also have two arm holes and bra has two cups.
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By the end of the 17th Century clothing leg consists of two parts, a sleeve of fabric for each leg, so he called a "pair" had a meaning.
The current trend, as "pants" anyway.
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This has been asked and answered on Yahoo Answers a few weeks ago to:
Chosen Best Answer - has been by the voters
We have heard that because of the pants and shorts in both legs. But they have two handles, and you still have a few "shirts." Hmm, so much for the theory.
Expert in Word, "the day is the pants in the majority a Americanism for the first time in 1840. The word is short trousers, a term that dell'arte of a character in Italian commedia, which both the means and pants had come .
World Wide Words says that this type of clothing trousers (, underwear, shorts, socks - or the equivalent term) were for it in two parts. A portion of each leg and then tied in the middle, something like the chapter onJeans. Finally, he landed always a garment, but serves to relate the two old, "he said.
This reference is not everywhere, but. The garment industry often uses the unique shape of the pants, but not always. Then choose your favorite, singular or plural - rely more on one leg at a time.
Good question, I am perplexed. I never thought that before ....
My answer is ....................... Not sure.
WOW never thought that
lol ... Good point.
I have no idea, but I wish he had not asked the question because it makes me crazy. My only thought is that words have their roots in a different language and the standards associated with these roots. Try in an etymological dictionary.
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